Abt, Jeffrey

Museum on the Verge

Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 2001. Hardcover. Hardcover with black cloth wrap and glossy printed dustjacket. 315 pages of mostly text with occasional illustrations. From the Publisher: The Detroit Institute of Arts is one of America's largest and oldest municipal art museums. However, even as the museum grew into a distinguished collection, there were threats of closure. The DIA has walked a financial tightrope since it opened just over a century ago, and was nearly closed by government funding cuts in the 1970s and 1990s. Now Jeffrey Abt tells how the DIA has had to struggle to maintain its fine art collection with barely enough income to remain open. A Museum on the Verge goes behind the scenes at the DIA to disclose the political, economic, and social forces that shaped the museum from its founding to the present day. Drawing on new archival research, Abt reveals that the growing discrepancy between the museum's size and its operating budget was the result of a century of ad hoc solutions to institutional problems that left the DIA vulnerable to annual income losses- especially reductions of government funding. He also explains its complex relations with private and government entities and delineates the integral role of the museum's support group, the Founders Society. Abt's account is supplemented by a wealth of material, including legal documents and numerical data taken at five-year intervals from the 1880s through 2000 that is presented in both tables and graphs. The data, which comprehensively survey vital statistics such as attendance, collections growth, and finances, provide a rich resource for comparative research on other museums. As a case study of a prominent public institution, A Museum on the Verge offers an invaluable research model for scholars and museum professionals alike. VG+/VG+ .

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Book number: 201410

Catalogue: Museum Management

Keywords: Museum Management ; the Detroit Institute of Arts ; ;

Buddensieg, Andrea; Belting, Hans

The Global Art World: Audiences, Markets, and Museums

Ostfildern, Hatje Cantz, 2009. Softcover. Octavo. Softcover. Glossy wrap. 407 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 25 cm. VG+ .

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Book number: 205019

Catalogue: Museum Management

Keywords: Museum Management ; the Global Art World ; ;

Harris, Stacy Paleologos; Richard Andrews; Cesar Pelli and Nancy Rosen; et al.

Insights/on Sites : Perspectives on Art in Public Places

Washington, DC, Partners for Livable Places, 1984. Softcover. White paper wraps, gray titles. A triangle of whole booklet cut from top spine, with 2.5" edges, and velcro-ed to the main book at the front--no text in little booklet. 80 pp. Ilustrated throughout, chiefly in color. Five essays exploring the definition of art in public places: Artists and the visual definition of cities: the experience of Seattle -- The chemistry of collaboration: and architect's view -- Alternative sites and uncommon collaborators: the story of creative time -- The social dimension: art that's more "as" than "on" -- From autocracy to integration: redefining the objectives of public art. VG- (Ex-lib. label at front cover, name in ink at ffep; Light-to-moderate wear and scuffing to wraps) .

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Book number: 129907

Catalogue: Museum Management

Keywords: Museum Management ; Art in Public Places ; ;

Manifesta

Mj - Manifesta Journal: Journal of Contemporary Curatorship

Milano, Silvana, 2008. Softcover. Neon Green French Tab Wraps. 399 pages : illustrations. Repr. of 3 issues of Manifesta journal, on the occasion of the 7th edition of Manifesta, Biennale europea di arte contemporanea, Fortezza (Bolzano), Bolzano, Trento, Rovereto (Trento), 2008./ Includes bibliographical references. Includes: the revenge of the white cube?; MJ - Manifesta Journal no. 1; MJ - Manifesta Journal no. 2; MJ - Manifesta Journal no. 3; MJ - Manifesta Journal. N°2, Winter 2003 / Spring 2004 : biennials.; MJ - Manifesta Journal. N°3, Spring / Summer 2004 : exhibition as a dream. VG .

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Book number: 181162

Catalogue: Museum Management

Keywords: Museum Management ; Manifesta Journal ; ;

Newhouse, Victoria

Towards a New Museum

New York, The Monacelli Press, 1998. Softcover. Color-illustrated card wraps with yellow lettering/blue spine. French flaps. 288 pp. with color/bw illus. throughout. "In this unprecedented investigation, architectural historian Victoria Newhouse challenges many hitherto accepted premises of museum design. She demonstrates that new museums - with a social function equal in importance to that of the 19th-century opera house - are often stil based on old concepts that no longer apply to contemporary art forms. This unvarnished analysis is informed by interviews with museum directors and curators, collectors, artists and the architects themselves..[The architects and their recently-designed spaces} represent what may be the most significant development: the museum that is as important architecturally as it is for the art it contains. These designs point the way toward a new museum for the 21st century." (from the book cover). VG .

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Book number: 143999

Catalogue: Museum Management

Keywords: Museum Management ; Museum Architecture ; ;

Siegel, Jonah

The Emergence of the Modern Museum : An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Sources

New York , New York, Oxford University Press, 2008. hardcover. Black cloth-bound boards with gilt lettering on spine and illustrated dustjacket. (2),3-381 pp. with some b+w illustrations. From poignant recollections of visits to stately homes to charged debates about the acquisition of the Elgin Marbles or the establishment of an Indian Museum; from early catalogue entries describing the curiosities discovered by Captain Cook to later ones organizing human skulls according to Darwinian principles - this volume offers a representative sample of the diverse, contentious and often moving ideas that have shaped the public museum from its earliest history. VG/VG .

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Book number: 201693

Catalogue: Museum Management

Keywords: History ; History of Museums ; ;

State Russian Museum

Otchet 2001 = Annual Report 2001 of the State Russian Museum

Saint Petersburg, Russia, State Russian Museum, 2002. Palace Edition. Hardcover. Black pictorial board cover, no dj. 271 pages : illustrations (some color). Text in Russian; Russian and English in facing columns. VG, covers show some slight weat .

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Book number: 181450

Catalogue: Museum Management

Keywords: Museum Management ; State Russian Museum ; ;

State Russian Museum

Otchet 2000 = Annual Report 2000 of the State Russian Museum

Saint Petersburg, Russia, State Russian Museum, 2001. Palace Edition. Hardcover. Black pictorial board cover, no dj. 215 pages : illustrations (some color). Text in Russian; Russian and English in facing columns. VG, covers show some slight weat .

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Book number: 181451

Catalogue: Museum Management

Keywords: Museum Management ; State Russian Museum ; ;

Thompson, John M.A.

Manual of Curatorship. A Guide to Museum Practices. 2nd Edition

Oxford / Boston, Butterworth-Heinemann, 1992. 2nd edition. Hardcover. Quarto. Hardcover. Glossy printed boards. xvii, 756 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. VG. Some scuffing to the covers, otherwise clean and unmarked.

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Book number: 204839

Catalogue: Museum Management

Keywords: Museum Management ; Curation ; ;

Thomson, Garry

The Museum Environment, 2nd Edition (Butterworth-Heinemann Series in Conservation and Museology)

Boston / London, Butterworth-Heinemann, 1986. Second Edition. Softcover. Octavo. Softcover. Glossy black covers. 293 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. VG. Light edge wear.

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Book number: 204486

Catalogue: Museum Management

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